Pierre-André Jouvet is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-la Défense and the scientific director of the Climate Economics Chair at Paris-Dauphine University. He is co-author of the recently published book Green Capital: A New Perspective on Growth.

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Global Temperatures went up from 1973 to 2003, but went down before and after that 30 year period while CO2 rose continuously. See Paullitely.com for Putin's Science and Economy briefing 2004 for Kyoto on Global Warming, and proofs and details. Will Putin update and present this powerpoint in December at Paris> Read more

I am all for a market-driven system, but shouldn't we treat all emissions equally? That is, transportation and industry account for a third of emissions while the far less often mentioned emitters of agriculture and forestry consume equally as much. That's just one example and not intended to single out those sectors, but it seems as though most proposals inherently are structured to be punitive to some forms of emissions while ignorant of others. Some food for thought; the U.N. estimates that cattle-rearing emits as many greenhouse gases as does transportation globally. A truly market-driven system of pricing carbon means we must have an accurate means of measuring the carbon impact of every human activity. Otherwise, we will be unfairly taxing some industries while effectively subsidizing others. I don't imagine wealth transfer is the intent of most emissions pricing proposals and yet it seems an inevitable consequence in the many schemes put forward to date. Read more

Competitive forces will simply move the production to the lower producers until everyone is producing average pollution but not less pollution for the World as a hole. The planet needs saving and the best we can come up with is this. Sigh. Read more

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